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''An Eton Poetry Book'' is an anthology edited by Cyril Alington and George Lyttelton, with an introduction by A. C. Benson. The editors' intentions were "to provide poems which boys might reasonably be expected to like" and "to awaken their metrical sense." The book was published in 1925, with a second impression in 1927 and a third in 1938. ==Background== Alington was Head Master of Eton from 1917 to 1933.〔Card, Tim. ("Alington, Cyril Argentine (1872–1955)" ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2008, accessed 22 Aug 2009.〕 Lyttelton was an Eton master from 1908 to 1945.〔''The Times'', obituary of Lyttelton, 2 May 1962, p. 16〕 Both men were classicists, but both had a deep love of English literature, which they sought to pass on to their pupils.〔〔 In choosing the poems for their anthology, Alington and Lyttelton adopted the following principles: *to exclude poetry likely to be beyond the grasp of boys;〔Alington and Lyttelton, p. vii〕 *to exclude poetry which might appeal to the young but would be repugnant to them in later life;〔 *to exclude blank verse ("partly because blank verse is appreciably harder to learn by heart, and partly from a desire to keep the book within reasonable limits"); and〔Alington and Lyttelton, p. viii〕 *to include favoured excerpts from long works.〔Alington and Lyttelton, ''passim''〕 The book was first published by Macmillan in London in 1925, with a second impression in 1927 and a third in 1938. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「An Eton Poetry Book」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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